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About Malaria No More UK
Malaria is one of the oldest killer diseases in history; even now, despite recent progress, it claims the life of a child every minute. Malaria No More UK is part of a global movement that is determined to make this the generation that beats this killer. To realise this vision, we need to mobilise governments, influencers, businesses and the public, inspiring them to commit funds, energy and resources to ending deaths from malaria and wiping out the disease for good.
Role description
Malaria No More UK is looking to appoint a highly motivated Senior Advocacy Officer to join our team and help implement our advocacy strategies. Working with both our UK and global advocacy, you will cultivate a new generation of malaria champions and push malaria up the political agenda. This role will work on increasing our visibility and the resonance of our case with key stakeholders, including decision makers in the UK and around the world. Securing increased support will be vital to global efforts to accelerate progress towards ending malaria for good within a generation. We are looking for a confident communicator with strong project management skills and a good understanding of political advocacy.
Key responsibilities
- Providing project management support for a range of projects relating to our UK and global advocacy, including acting as project lead on agreed projects.
- Strategic stakeholder mapping, including building and maintaining relationships with UK parliamentarians and keeping contact records in our database updated on a regular basis.
- Lead the delivery of high-quality events for policy and political audiences, including at the UK party conferences, and international meetings.
- Daily monitoring of the global malaria landscape and UK parliamentary activities and keeping the team informed of relevant developments and engagement opportunities.
- Drafting of political briefings on key policy areas within malaria and global health.
- Providing administrative support relating to our UK and global advocacy, including the coordination of stakeholder mailings, updating our contact management system (Salesforce), scheduling and attending meetings, and taking minutes.
- Managing relationships with scientists working on malaria and providing them with advocacy insight through our UK Malaria Technical Expert Collective.
- Identifying opportunities to engage political decision-makers and new malaria champions in the UK.
Person specification
Essential
- Strong commitment to the mission and values of MNMUK
- Demonstrated experience working in a parliamentary, advocacy or campaigning role.
- A degree, or equivalent experience. Strong verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder relationships confidently and independently.
- Experience of managing events and providing logistical support.
- Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, manage workload independently and work to tight deadlines.
- Knowledge of UK parliamentary procedures and strong interest in politics and international development.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to work well within a team and willingness to take on a range of tasks as necessary.
- Ability to exhibit diplomacy, tact, and discretion.
Desirable
- Knowledge of malaria and/or global health policy.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced NGO environment.
- Experience of contact management and working with databases.
Staff benefits include:
- 10% employer pension contributions.
- 28 days’ annual leave plus public holiday days in the postholders country of residence, and organisation-wide closure over the Christmas period to ensure everyone enjoys a meaningful break.
- Private medical insurance may be available for non-UK residents depending on the postholders country of residence.
- Subsidised gym membership
- Fully flexible working opportunities
- Interest-free staff season ticket loan and bicycle loan schemes.
- Continuing personal development opportunities.
- Professional training & qualifications subsidy.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
MNMUK is committed to recruiting and developing diverse talent as well as nurturing an inclusive workplace where people bring a diversity of ideas, skills, backgrounds, and experiences to fully contribute to our mission to end malaria in our lifetime. We encourage candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply, and welcome applications from all candidates regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation and age.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
To bring unifying and impactful communications, campaigns and partnerships to drive advocacy to end malaria for good.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Working Animals International
Working Animals International (formerly known as SPANA) is dedicated to transforming the wefare of working animals in greatest need globally By increasing access to skills, knowledge and resources and campaigning for policy change, we're building a world where working animals are healthy and valued, communities are stronger, and livelhoods are more secure.
About this role
This is an exciting opportunity within our newly established advocacy function to support the delivery of Working Animals International’s global advocacy strategy as part of a small, dedicated team.
Working closely with our Head of Advocacy, the Advocacy Officer will help shape and implement inclusive, evidence-based policy and advocacy initiatives that advance the welfare of working animals. The postholder will support engagement with governments, international institutions, our global partner network and wider stakeholders to drive systemic change.
Contract, location and salary
This is a full-time (34.5 hours per week) permanent role. This is a UK based role, with regular attendance (1-2 days per month, or more if preferred) in our London office, and applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
The salary for this role is c.£34k per annum, subject to skills and experience. Working Animals International offers a generous company pension scheme with a 10% employer contribution if the employee contributes a minimum 5%, and healthcare cashplan with Medicash alongside other benefits.
Full details and how to apply
Please see the job description for this role for full details including a person specification. The deadline for applications is 23:59 BST on Tuesday 07 July 2026.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The postholder will play a vital role in advancing Southall Black Sisters’ (SBS) policy, communications and public affairs work. This includes shaping and delivering strategies that:
• Promote SBS’s mission to end violence against women and girls (VAWG), particularly for Black, minoritised and migrant (BMM) women and girls.
• Influence public policy and legislation to secure justice, safety and rights for Black, minoritised and migrant women and girls.
• Strengthening the public voice and visibility of SBS through impactful communications and campaigning.
They will work closely with senior staff, partner organisations and stakeholders to ensure that SBS’s policy positions, campaigns and services are effectively communicated, and that the lived experiences of the women and girls SBS supports are at the forefront of public and political discourse.
Why work with Southall Black Sisters?
Southall Black Sisters is committed to providing a supportive working environment, where team members feel valued, empowered and safe. To that end, we provide an excellent package of employee benefits including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Hybrid working
- Enhanced pension contribution
- Enhanced sick pay
- Subsidised public transport season ticket
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, including access to confidential support from MBACP therapists
- Clinical supervision with an MBACP therapist to explore issues arising from casework
- A focus on continued learning and development through accredited training delivered by experts in their field
- Organisation-wide away days
- Career development pathways and support
- The opportunity to learn and grow within an organisation renowned for inspiring political activism and campaigning successes
- Employer eye care scheme
To Apply
Submit a completed application form along with the optional equal opportunities monitoring form by the application deadline. Please do not send us your CV as this will not be considered.
Please note, incomplete applications will not be considered.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.